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What is Pleonasm?
Unusual ghostlike creature who frequents outhouses and continues to repeat the same word.
Jake heard the pleonasm through the half moon in the door, the night the comet struck.
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Pleonasm - what is it?
A pleonasm is a redundant description. It is describing a word using adjectives that apply to it's inherent characteristics.
Person 1: Tim is a stupid idiot.
Person 2: As opposed to a smart idiot? You just used a pleonasm.
What does "Pleonasm" mean?
the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense : redundancy
Instead of getting straight to the central idea, she used pleonasm because she thought more words made it better